This Gospelbook contains the text of the four gospels and is illuminated with ten canon tables (tables indicating the concordance between the parallel passages in the gospels) and portraits of the four evangelists. In three cases the portrait is put on the left-hand page, while the gospel text starts on the opposite page, with a conspicuous decoration of initials and coloured bands.
This creates an attractive beginning of the gospel, as can be seen here, with to the left St. John the Evangelist with his symbol, the eagle, and to the right the initial words of his gospel, "[In] principio erat verbum ..." ([In] the beginning was the Word). The letters "I" and "N" of the first word have been worked into the background of the miniature.
